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The Brussels Post, 1960-09-29, Page 3HOW IT'S DONE — a suicide venture is a soft touch if it's done the way Sophia Loren tries in London, England. She is leaping from London. Bridge for the filming of "The Million- oiress" — right onto a pile of mattresses. The landing, of course, is not seen in the movie. Army Of Twelve On The Alert Perched an a hilltop, SInnelc dab, in the midst of hair, like some displaced relic of medieval times, is the world's oldest and tiniest democracy. Right ;now in The Most Ser. ene Republic of San Marino things are not so serene — and. if Landon doesn't watch its step, Great Britain will have to an- swer to San Marino's standing army of 12, Although Britain is willing to Accord San Marino $72,000 in war compensations, for damages the Royal Air Force inflicted by mistake during World War II, the goad people of this Lillipu- tian state (13,500 of them) want a payment amounting to a cool Relations between Britain and San Marino have reached such a delicate point now that the Foreign Office is engaging in firmer and firmer diplomacy, Let London beware, for San Marino may soon dispatch its notes in plain English instead of Latin. The Most Serene Republic of San Marino needs that million dollars pretty badly. The econ- omy, behind which lies ga tradi- tion of 16 centuries of independ- ent statehood is at a danger point. During the 12 years that the Communists controlled the 38 -square- mile mountaintop country, they went further and further into the hole while their annual budget, now nearly $90Q,- 000, got bigger and bigger. If it were not for the tourist trade and postage stamps, Son Marino would really be in a fix. The prime source of re- venue, philatelic, is not enough to balance the budget. San Mar- ino has issued more than 80U different stamps, including about 150 air mails (even though it has no airport). The issues com- memorate such things as the, San Marino railroad (which has not run ,for years), the Discus Thrower (even though the coun- try is sending no one to the Olympics) and Abraham Lin- coln and Franklin D. Roosevelt (neither of whom ever visited" the place). San Marino put out as first postage stamp in 1877 and for more than 14 years kept making the same 5 centesimi and 10 centesimi stamps. Then in 1892 the 'government discovered it could make a fat profit by print- ing the stamps all wrong, much to the joy of philatelists. So San Marino began to "mis- print" stamps rightside up, up- side down, doubly rightside up and doubly upside down. Dur- ing the Communist' administra- tion San Marino printed 64 kinds of stamps that were per- forated wrong, 10 that were cen- tered incorrectly, and one that was even coloured defectively. They made a killing, writes Nino Lo Bello in the Christian, Science Monitor. Recently the new Christian Democratic government assign- ed a lull-duty inspector to the print shop to see that such prac- tices do not occur any more — but you can still buy on the cobbled streets of this miniature state the 1892 stamps for $136 each (with stickum) and $72 (sans stickum). You can also pick up a title around here, if that is your cup of tea, because The Most Ser- ene Republic of San Marino has discovered that some people will pay almost any price for a royal rank, complete with coat of arms. For $37,000 (cash basis only) you can purchase all world rights to the "Duke of Pesciii- era," while the title of "Cousit of Montelupe" is yours for the bargain price of $24,000. For a few extra dollars they will even stage a ceremony for you and fire th e Army's two cannons amid plenty of pomp. What may save the economy of San Marino, more than post- age stamps and pseudo titles, are the thousands of tourists bearing Welcome money with them. Since the visitor to San Marino is met with genuine hospitality, he is encouraged to spend his loose change on souvenirs, thingeinajigs, post cards, and the 1 i k e. For a small fee (eight cents) he can even have his passport officially stamped at the frontlet so he can show the folks back home he visited are other tountey. The tourist to San Marino should be careful, however. While he is more than welcome, he Must never take the bailie of Sari. Marine in vain, This is a legal crime here, end if caught you are punishable by a prison sentence of 20 clays, Of course it is possible to avoid jail if yott are willing to pay money. Seems the treasury haS a Weakness for it. "Many WOltiSh refuse to give their husbands a little .rape," serfs an ^agony coluinn. Perhaps they're frightened they Might skip! Wilson 0'131•Ioni "so loose," He referred to The Examin- orla e r Prize- winning crime reporter, Ed Montgomery, who was told to find the Boyds' mountain hideaway. Montgom- ery first checked the 0)14043 places, Then when The Chron- icle published pictures of Boyd's campsite, Montgomery huddled, with The Examiner's own gut" doors writer, Walter 11adke, who spotted the location. Twenty- four hours later, Montgomery and rewrite man George Mur- phy, reached the campsite, and began gathering Material. "The 'Last Mari on Earth,' charged The Examiner's result- ing story, "apparently tramped oil into the woods much better equipped for survival than Girl. Scouts on a week-end cookout in the Waldorf-Astoria." Some of the items Mentgomery found at the Boyds' campsite; Kitchen matches, fresh egg shells, sugar cubes, soft-drink bottle caps, watermelon rinds, empty food cans, empty bottles of sun-tan lotion, and a 3-pound-test nylon fishing leader attached to a handmade fishing pole. What did The Chronicle have to say about that? Executive editor Scott Newhall claimed the debris was left by rescuers who took the Boyds back to civilization. Next, The Chronicle filed a $1.5 million libel suit against The Examiner and the Boyds sued for $605,000. "I made the decision to re- lease the series," editor New- hall later explained. "In all we will have 21 pieces and we're running them through to the end. We were going to announce on the 23rd (of July) that Bud had come out with his family, and so advised all the papers. They seem to be going along." But again Newhall failed to explain the situation fully. Only a day before The Examiner's exposé, client members of The Chronicle's syndicate received "personal and confidential" let- ters advising them that the ex- periment had failed and asking ..the papers to cooperate in main- taining security. At least one newspaper felt that it could not play ball with Newhall. The New York Herald Tribune's managing editor Fen- dell Yerxa immediately wired back: "(We) cannot compromise readers' confidence in us by withholding the announcement." The next day, The Herald. Tri- bune declared that it would no longer carry the series. Back in San Francisco the eve- ning News-Call Bulletin leaped into the fray with a spool of both morning papers. It ran its own survival test concerning staffer Andrew Curtin's experi- ences with a blonde, glazed ham, champagne, chairs, table linen, -and a variety of gleaming silver- ware in Golden Gate Park. Boyd, who had no voice in the decision to run the series, even though he was out of the woods, said firmly and frankly: "I did not cheat. I made an hon- est effort . . . I've always prided myself on being a woodsman I thought I was tough . . . yet I failed," In knocking down. the Boyd story, The Examiner also ap- peared to cut into the morale of the. just recently exuberant Chronicle staff. "If. I hadn't ta- ken a tranquilizer this morning, I'd quit," one disgruntled Chron- icle reporter told a rival news- man. "Do you have any jobs open in your shop?" — From NEWSWEEK. "Many men can boast of start- ing life as barefoot boys," states an historian. As if the rest of us were born with shoes on! • Tractor fuel costs can be cut if proper attention is paid to a number of items, advises agri- cultural engineer J. L. Thomp- son of the Swift Current Experi- mental Farm. A motor tune-up is advisable, he says, and this usually in- volves valve adjustment, spac- ing of points, tuning the distri- butor, cleaning spark plugs, and adjusting the carburetor, * * If the dealer has a power take-off dynamometer the car- buretor can be adjusted under load for improved economy. Well seated valves are essen- tial for high power output from the amount of fuel used. Piston rings in good condition also pro- vide oil economy. To prevent -undue wear of the rings, oil, oil, filter and air filter •should be changed according to the -re- commended number of working hours, or more \often under ches- ty conditions. A dirty filter acts as a choke and hence uses much more fuel than is necessary. * * Usually tractors are the most ,economical when pulling 75 per cent of their maximum load. Heavy loads require a lower gear and light ones are usually drawn at higher speeds. For very light loads it is a good practice to operate in a higher gear and throttle back to the recommended speed. When heavy loads cause slippage above 15 per cent, it is advisable to attach tractor weights. Fuel sav- ings will soon pay for the weights. • * Drawbar loads can be reduc- ed by proper adjustments of implements. Soft tires require snore power and also wear out more quickly. Accessories, such as the hy- draulic pump, use power even when not in use and should be disconnected' when not required if feasible. Brakes that drag and slipping clutches also waste power. They should be checked periodically and corrected when necessary. • * Fuel storage tanks may be the cause of heavy fuel losses by evaporation. Overhead tanks should be shaded from direct sunlight and also a pressure re- gulator installed in the vent PROOF = This machine if of II-, cially known as Precision Re- cording (Optical) of Finger- prints, or PROOP„ If uses an optical Unit to project finger- Orient' on a Screen for direct visual observation or for aper. Mat-tent record. It elitninotes Inks arid chemicals, N 3 MIME NM000.1 OEM MMus ,R IV MEW) NO0 E WM 151151MESI 112E1 DO gra',EOU/E 11151112 ORT NEMO M• IEdEl El GENE 1113171010111M 13 min Dra vri v Ing v MP ME 1521261511M- ME MEI EN MG EllniMi ®©11 BM= - 9 d tee *4,45 12. BUY SCI1001 LESSON fly Revs ft, Barclay Warren PA.) The Danger of IVIllitarY AM:Wee Isaiah 30: 1-3, 15-1$ A TURN FOR THE WETTER — This self-propelled irrigation rig inches -along the ground in a Wide circle watering dry crops and making good harvests possible even in semi-arid regions. The towers are, placed 96 feet apart and the units are sometimes as long as 2,000 feet. NemarY Selection; In return- ing and rest shall re be saved; in quietness and in canfidQuett shall be your strength. 1.414,1k 30:15. When the Israelites had faith,, God did great things for them.. "By faith they passed througlw tthe Red Sea asby dry laude which the Egyptians assaying to do were drowned. By faith the walls of Jericho fell down, after they were compassed about seven days," When the Israelites lost faith in God and turned to neighbour- ing kingdoms for help, they got into difficulty. King Ahaz, ira spite of Isaiah's emphatic advice as God's spokesman, foolishly sent tribute to Assyria to ,win aid against Syria and North Israel. They soon wearied of paying tribute, A pro-Egyptian party influenced the new king, Heze- kiah, to rebel against the Icing of Assyria. This led to trouble that would have brought the destruction of the kingdom had Hezekiah not resorted to prayer and faith. Isaiah now warned against an alliance 'with Egypt. At God's command he walked naked and barefoot for a sign concerning. Egypt and Ethiopia. This is re- garded as meaning that he wore only a slave's loincloth. The point was that so would Assyria lead away captives of Egypt and Ethiopia, to their shame; and hence that those who trusted in Egypt for help would be dis- mayed. The conquest took place after Isaiah's death. This for- saking of the way of faith in God led finally to the capture of the land by the Chaldeans. Those who have lived through two world wars know that alit- ances are very uncertain. The 'Scrap of paper' did not prevent Germany from marching into Belgium in 1914. In 1939 Ger- many and Russia joined in thie rape of PoIarnd but gi9P the" were in a death grapple with" each other. Who can depend 4 whom? Fear and suspicion do., minate at the conference table of the nations. There is a great mounting of tension in the hearts of people everywhere. We need to return to prayer and faith in God. This is true not only for us but for all the na- tions of the world. THE FARM FRONT Could Be Willie Gypped Quentin? The life of William Francis Sutton, more widely celebrated as "Willie the Actor," could be divided roughly into three acts. In the first, Willies steals about $2 million from banks be- mused by his artful disguises (hence the nickname) and twice escape the prisons that more or less hold him for twenty of the 32 years following his 19th birth- day. Willie's curtain line, uttered in explanation of why he prefers to victimize banks: "That's where the money is," In the second, Willie, the fur- tive fugitive, is spotted by Brooklyn clothing salesman Ar- nold Schuster, arrested, and sent to New York's. Attica Prison to spend 30 years or so. Curtain line, taken from the book "I, Willie Sutton": "It is rather a pleasant experience to be alone in a bank at night." The third act finds Willie crouched over a steamy tub in Attica State- Prison's laundry, developing what appears to be a social conscience. Re decrees that proceeds from the sale of his story shall go into a trust, "The Willie Sutton Helping Hand Fund," to rehabilitate ex-con- victs and juvenile deliqeunts. The play seemed to suit every- body except the principal player. Last month, still crouched over Attica's steaming tubs, Willie, now 60, was busily trying to re- write the third act. Through an attorney, Willie demanded that a New York City court break the trust, so that he could give the money to his 29-year-old daughter, Mrs. Jeane Ganley. But Louis J. Lefkowitz, New York State's attorney general, opposed the move on behalf of any future ex-convicts who might stand to benefit from the fund. Willie's lawyer persisted in his demand, and let it be known that the Willie Sutton Helping Hand Fund might now contain $100,000. As the plot thickened, there came a loud voice from offstage. It was Quentin Reynolds, who fed Willie's organ tones through the console of the mighty Rem- ington for 50 per cent of the pro- fits. "If Willie got a hundred grand out of the deal," said Rey- nolds, "I'd like to know where it came from." From NEWS- WEEK. Newspaper Stunt That Boomeranged APPLE FOR TEACHER Quite a number of school- teacher Florence Mostler's pu- pils turned up to see her married at New Hyde Park, and as the bride walked from the church arm-in-arm with her groom, the children each gave her an apple! One of the year's most spec- tacular circulation booming stunts boomeranged on its news- paper promoters last Ymonth, For ten days, The San- Fran- cisco Chronicle and 44 other newspapers across the 'nation. bad been reporting the efforts . of The Chronicle's outdoors wri- ter, 41-year-old Bud Boyd, to survive with his wife and three children (aged 15, 12, and 8) without camping equipment or packaged food in the rugged Snountain wilderness of northern California. And despite' the hardships fele Boyds faced — storms, cold, a meager natural food supply consisting mainly of trout and frogs — it seemed from Boyd's breathless newspaper accounts (and from statements by the drumbeating Chronicle) that the family would come through the planned six weeks' ordeal. But then, the very day The • chronicle was running Boyd's/ eight-day account of how he had put together a bow and arrow for shooting deer, the hotly com- petitive San Francisco Examiner splashed a story of its own all over•page 1, complete with pic- tures. The Examiner said it had discovered Boyd's mountain camp — deserted. What's more, it implied, the family hadn't suffered any of the hardships Boyd wrote about. The Chron- icle was then forced into a da- maging admission — the Boyd family, after twelve days in the woods, had indeed returned to ,civilization on July 10, a full day before his articles began to run. But by this time, The Chronicle added, the Boyds had spent ten days in the woods, living off the land, until they became "ravaged by malnutri- tion and dysentery." What was behind. The Exa- miner's barrage, of course, was a circulation war in which the now aggressive Chronicle (circu- lation: 270,285) has been closing in on the Hearst chain's flag- ship paper (circulation: 276,792). "The heat was on from the management," said The Examin- er's tough, shrewd city editor, Upsidedown to Prevent Peeking pipe. By maintaining a little pressure in the fuel tank, eva- poration losses can be greatly reduced. * 4<* A lightweight insect with a heavyweight appetite — that's the Canadian grasshopper. It takes upwards of 6,000 when newly hatched to weigh an ounce, notes L. G. Putnam, a federal scientist with the Sas- katoon Research Station. Under normal conditions, their weight increases as much as two and a half times every week. At five weeks, they become fully 'winged adults and are 30 'to 80 times heavier than when -hatched. * e 4' Grasshoppers may be slight, but there is nothing slight about their appetites. If there were one newly hatch- ed 'hopper on every square foot in a .field, those on an acre would weigh only half a pound; when they reached adult .stage,, they would weigh 25 pounds. On 10 acres, roughly the area needed to keep a Cow in the dry districts, there -would be 250 pounds of adult grasshoppers competing with the cow. * Studies have shown that to produce this amount of "grass- hopper b e e f" requires 450 pounds of forage, dry weight. Concludes Mr. Putnam: "Under severe outbreak con- ditions, where populations of five or more •grasshoppers per square foot are common, a cow would not stand a chance against the grasshoppers, but would starve to death." * 4, Government policy of giving greater price support to better quality butter has already borne results. Since May 1, 1960, the Agri- cultural Stabilization Board has been paying one cent per pound more for 93-score butter than for the 92-score product. The effect of this incentive to improve the quality of First Grade creamery butter is shown in the grading figures for May 1 to June 18 when the 45.2 mil- lion pounds graded contained 15.5 million pounds (34.3%) of butter scoring 93 points or high- er. In the same period last year 43.4 million pounds was graded containing 13.4 million pounds (31%) of the higher grade, Greater efficiency in produc- tion has been ,achieved by the installation in recent years of stainless steel churns and other equipment in place of the old- type wooden churns which used to be the basic machine of thou- sands of small creameries, par- ticularly in Eastern. Canada and Quebec. Some of the wooden churns could produce 1,000 pounds of butter in one opera- tion but many had only one- quarter of that capacity. * 4' By comparison, several cream- cries in Canada can now turn out as much as a carload of butter in one day. A Quebec creamery recently installed a gainless steel churn making 7,000 pounds of butter in one operation, which can be repeat- ed several timed a day, In other. creameries the continuous oper- ation system has been set up successfully, the cream Under, going rian-stop processing until it emerges as butter, As a result of this stmitnlin. Ihg, the number al production units 'declined from 1,300 tretitn- eries making butter lit 1039 to 9611' iii 1057' ISSUE 35 —1960 5, blientangle 6. Destruction 7. Lyric 8. Neon symbol D. Indo-Chinese country 10. Geniality 11. Teamster's corn/110.hr.] 16. Uncle Tom's friend 18. FIoisting machine 20, Anything 21, But . big I0y flown 22, His 24. Lawyers 26. 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